St. Antonius (Gey)
| St. Anthony | |
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 Church of St. Antonius in Gey (Hürtgenwald) |
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| place | Hürtgenwald, Gey district, Friedhofstrasse |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 44 '57.8 " N , 6 ° 25' 21.7" E |
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Antonius is in the Gey district of the Hürtgenwald community in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
The externally simple structure is covered with a gray gable roof. The square tower with the baptistery, located to the right of the main entrance, is covered by a pyramid roof. The windows next to the entrance and in the side aisles are small arched windows arranged in pairs. In the choir, window groups of 20 windows are arranged on each side. The organ gallery is lit by a large rose window. All windows are decorated with ornaments made of antique glass, which, with the exception of the window in the baptistery, were made by the glass artist Maria Katzgrau and from 1951.
history
In 1476 a first chapel was built on the corner of Broichstrasse and (today's) Dürener Strasse and in 1682 master Andreas Schmidt from Leitersbach considerably expanded it. It was demolished in 1920. A new, larger church was built in the Romanesque style at the beginning of the 1920s by master builder Wilhelm Huppperts at the exit to Horm. After the total destruction by retreating German soldiers in the Second World War , today's church was built on its foundations between 1950 and 1957 .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Dürener Zeitung of April 21, 1976
- ↑ Alexander Mainz "The Hürtgenwald Community in Pictures" (1981)
